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(Amendment  4  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  276) 

United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

BUREAU  OF  ANIMAL  INDUSTRY 


U  :   DEPOSITORY 
AMENDMENT  4  TO  B.  A.  I.  ORDER --2W- 


Regulations  Governing  the  Preparation,  Sale,  Barter,  Exchange,  Shipment, 
and  Importation  of  Viruses,  Serums,  Toxins,  and  Analogous  Products 
Intended  for  Use  in  the  Treatment  of  Domestic  Animals 

{Effective  on  and  after  March  1,  1927) 

Unites)  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary, 
Washington,  D.  C,  February  28,  1927. 
Under  authority  conferred  by  law  upon  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture,  B.  A.  I. 
Order  276,  dated  August  18,  1922,  and  effective  November  1,  1922,  as  amended, 
is  hereby  further  amended  in  the  following  particulars  : 

Paragraph  6,  section  4,    regulation  19,   is  revoked  and   in  lieu   thereof  the 
following  paragraph  is  prescribed  : 

Paragraph  6.  The  period  for  holding  surviving  pigs  under  the  observa- 
tion of  a  bureau  employee,  while  being  used  for  testing  the  potency  and 
purity  of  anti-hog-cholera  serum  as  described  in  these  regulations,'  shall 
be  not  less  than  14  days  immediately  following  their  inoculation  for  this 
purpose  and  as  much  longer  as  the  inspector  in  charge  deems  necessary  to 
render  proper  judgment  of  the  results  of  the  test. 
Paragraph  2,  section  9,  regulation  19.  is  revoked  aud  in  lieu  thereof  the 
following  paragraph  is  prescribed  : 

Paragraph  2.  Animals  used  for  testing  serum  as  prescribed  in  para- 
graph 1  of  this  section  shall  be  held  under  the  supervision  of  a  bureau 
employee  for  at  least  14  days,  and  the  animals  carefully  examined  at  the 
sites  of  inoculations  to  determine  whether  the  product  has  caused  abscess 
formation.  Serum  tested  as  prescribed  in  this  section  will  be  disposed  of 
as  approved  by  the  chief  of  bureau. 
Paragraph  2,  section  11,  regulation  19.  is  revoked  and  in  lieu  thereof  the 
following  paragraph  is  prescribed  : 

Paragraph  2.  The  following  provisions  are  made  regarding  the  return 
date  shown  on  trade  labels. of  anti-hog-cholera  serum: 

(a)  For  ordinary  detibrinated  blood  serum,  and  clear  serum  referred  to 
in  subdivision  (a),  paragraph  2,  section  10,  of  this  regulation,  the  date 
used  shall  not  exceed  two  years  from  the  date  on  which  the  first  serum 
of  the  batch  is  collected. 

(b)  For  clear  serum  described  in  subdivision  (b).  paragraph  2.  section 
10,  of  this  regulation,  the  date  used  shall  not  exceed  three  vears  from  the 
date  on  which  the  first  serum  of  the  batch  is  collected. 

(c)  For  serum  refined  as  provided  in  paragraph  3,  section  10,  of  this 
regulation,  the  date  used  shall  not  exceed  two  years  from  the  date  on 
which  the  first  serum  of  the  batch  is  refined. 

Paragraph  5,  section  11,  regulation  19,  is  revoked  and  in  lieu  thereof  the 
following  paragraph  is  prescribed: 

Paragraph  5.  Trade  labels  affixed  to  or  used  in  connection  with  the 
immediate  or  true  containers  of  anti-hog-cholera  serum  shall  show  the 
quantity  of  the  contents  of  said  containers,  and  the  minimum  true  or  pro- 
tective serum  present.  This  information  shall  appear  conspicuously  im- 
mediately following  the  true  name  of  the  product  and  in  one  of  the  follow- 
ing forms : 

(a)   Quantity, c.  c.  containing  65  per  cent  protective  serum. 

(6)   Quantity, c.  c.  containing  80  per  cent  protective  serum. 

This  amendment  for  the  purpose  of  identification  is  designated 
amendment  4  to  B.  A.  I.  Order  276  and  shall  become  and  be 
effective  .on  and  after  March  1,  1927,  except  that  paragraph  5, 
section  11,  of  regulation  19  as  amended  need  not  applv  to  serum 
collected  before  July  1,  1927. 

W.  M.  Jardine, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 

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